Fragments of Noir

Saturday, 15 December 2018

Cities Make, Destroy, Infect #11

Millers Crossing

Dementia

Poodle Springs

Nightmare Alley

LA Confidential

Lady from Shanghai

Point Blank

Touch of Evil

Shutter Island

A Woman on the Run

Chinatown

Force of Evil

Pale Flower

Kill Me Again

Mr Arkadin

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Scandal Sheet

Driver

The Thief

The Getaway

Neon Wilderness

In sleep he saw their pale lascivious faces ; watched them moving like blind men beneath the thousand-columned El, where a calamitous yellow light filtered downward all night long. In this tragic and fluorescent dream they passed and repassed him restlessly, their faces half averted, forever smiling uneasily as though sharing some secret and comforting knowledge of evil which he could never know.

Nelson Algren
The Captain Has Bad Dreams
The Neon Wilderness
1947

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Art Shay
Nelson Algren, Chicago

https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/06/13/can-a-division-street-cocktail-bar-truly-capture-the-spirit-of-nelson-algren